John Cole
Elite Cafe Member
Hello All,
As the newest member to the forum, and a complete engraving novice, let me start by saying....WOW..
Now that I've lost the better part of the day reading the lists, I've got more questions that when I started.
Let me give some background on myself first....
I've been doing pierced metalwork by hand, for several years now, and have always hand chased the details into anything that I've been working on. A friend has reciently asked me to do a few fraternal medallions in a historic 18th cent. style. The style lends itselfs incredibly well to engraving, so I thought what the heck, let's learn hand engraving. Ok, ya'll can stop laughing now.
Anyway, This seems the natural progressing for my art, so here we go.
As much as I would love to start with the neumatic systems that I've read about, it's just not affordable at the moment. I'm looking at getting the following to start up.
GRS power hone system
GRS standard engraving block
a selection of gravers and quick change hand piece
a block of Chinese White
Is there anything else that would be a *must* for start up?
I've already gotten an instructional dvd by Don Glaser and The Art of Engraving by James Meek to help me get started.
I've mainly worked in base metals and silver in the past, but looking at some of the work of folks on the forum has me looking at steel blanks to practice on.....
John C.
As the newest member to the forum, and a complete engraving novice, let me start by saying....WOW..
Now that I've lost the better part of the day reading the lists, I've got more questions that when I started.
Let me give some background on myself first....
I've been doing pierced metalwork by hand, for several years now, and have always hand chased the details into anything that I've been working on. A friend has reciently asked me to do a few fraternal medallions in a historic 18th cent. style. The style lends itselfs incredibly well to engraving, so I thought what the heck, let's learn hand engraving. Ok, ya'll can stop laughing now.
Anyway, This seems the natural progressing for my art, so here we go.
As much as I would love to start with the neumatic systems that I've read about, it's just not affordable at the moment. I'm looking at getting the following to start up.
GRS power hone system
GRS standard engraving block
a selection of gravers and quick change hand piece
a block of Chinese White
Is there anything else that would be a *must* for start up?
I've already gotten an instructional dvd by Don Glaser and The Art of Engraving by James Meek to help me get started.
I've mainly worked in base metals and silver in the past, but looking at some of the work of folks on the forum has me looking at steel blanks to practice on.....
John C.